Baling-press



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J. D. HAUGHTON & W. J. ALEXANDER.

BALING PRESS.

No. 379,645. Patented Mar. 20, 1888.

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BALING PRESS.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES D. HAUGHTON AND \VILLIAM J. ALEXANDER, OF MONROE COUNTY, (NEAR EGYPT, OHIOKASAW COUNTY,) MISSISSIPPI.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,645, dated March 20, 1888.

Application filed December 7, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES D. HAUGHTON and WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER, citizens of the United States, residing in Monroe county, near 5 Egypt, in Chickasaw county, and State of Mississipi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Baling Presses, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in baling-presses, being especially adapted to press hay; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; [5 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of a press embodying the invention and attached to a wagon. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinal section of the parts. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the platen and attached anti-friction wheels.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the long rectangular main frame of the machine, with the press-frame B rising from it near its front end, and having the flanged ways a a formed on the upper surface of its side beams in rear of the press frame. The pressframe is provided with the top frames, b b, parallel to the side beams of the main frame, and the vertical beams b 1), connecting said side beams and top beams.

O is the head of the press, secured in the front end of the press-frame and provided in its rear or inner surface with the vertical grooves or kerfs c, for the passage of the tyingwires or suitable bale-ties.

The top of the press-frame, between its side and end beams, consists of a door, D, connected by hinges d to one side beam and held closed by a suitable number of buttons, (1, pivoted to the opposite side beam. The said door is preferably composed of longitudinal slats and transverse rails secured thereon, and upon which the buttons (1 engage.

The bottom of the press-frame is provided with the cross-beams e 6, between the front two of which is the door E, hinged at its rear edge to the adjoining beam, 6, and held closed at its front edge by the buttons e, hinged to the front beam, e, as shown in Fig. 3.

F is a depending metal loop, secured cen- Serial No. 257,239. (No model.)

trally to one of the cross-beams 0, near the rear of the press-frame, and f is a metal bar pivoted at its rear end on the front beam, 6, and having the opening f near its front end.

The door E is composed of longitudinal slats and cross-bars similar to those of the top door, and the part of the bottom in rear of the door has similar longitudinal slats secured to the inner or upper sides of the beams 0.

Between the two beams b b, at the front of the press-frame on each side, is the swinging door G, hinged at its upper edge to the corresponding top beam of the press-frame and held closed at its lower edge by the buttons 9, pivoted to the side beam of the main frame. The said doors are somewhat narrower be tween the beams 1) than the bottom door is between its corresponding beams, and are provided with similar longitudinal slats, the sides of the press-frame in rear of the doors-G being also provided with the same.

The front and rear ends of the press-frame are braced on the side beams of the main frame by suitable inclined stay-rods, as shown in the drawings.

H is the platenor follower-plate, provided with the vertical grooves or kerfs h, corresponding with and opposite to those in the head 0. The platen is notched rectangularly at each lower corner, as at h and in such notched portions are j ournaled to the edge of the platen the anti friction wheels, which move on the bottom slats, h h, adjoining the sidebearns of the main frame,which-slats form ways for said wheels.

i i are longitudinal bars extending rearward from the platen to the driver-bar I.

jj are studs depending from the ends of said 0 driver-bar and having journaled upon them the anti-friction wheels J J, which move over the ways a a, and k is an eyebolt secured centrally to the frontside ofthe driver-bar between the bars i. Upon the said eyebolt is swung the double-sheaved block K.

Z is a strong vertical metal rod secured centrally between the top and bottom cross-beams at the rear end of the press-frame, and L is a single-sheaved block secured to a suitable point of said rod.

M is a Windlass having its transverse shaft,

m, journaled in bearings secured to upper surfaces of the side beams of the main frame immediately in rear of the press-frame, the said shaft being below the bars t. The shaftmhas -on its respective ends the wheels and P,

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each provided with a series of equidistant outstanding handles, 0 o, by means of which two work1nenone on each side-can operate the Windlass. to receive a band from a steam or other motor, and the wheel P has a grooved periphery in which to actuate and wind a rope having a horse hitched at the other end; Thus the machine can be run by hand, horse, or steam power.

Q is a rope, preferablyof wire, having one end secured to the vertical bar Z, running thence rearward and around one of the sheaves of the double block K, then front-ward around the sheaves of the single block, then again rearward around the second sheaves of the double block, and then frontward to have its other end secured to the shaft of the Windlass. The power is thus multiplied, in the well-understood manner, both by the leverage of the wheels and by the movable pulleys.

To attach the machine to a wagon,the kingbolt is withdrawn therefrom, separating the reach from the front axle and detaching the tongue. The reach R is then passed through the metal loop F, secured to the bottom of the machine, and the king-bolt Sis passed through the opening in the barf and its seat in front axle.

To use the machine, the bottom and side doors are closed by the means described, the

upper door opened, the platen run to the front of the press, and the hay introduced in the The upper door is then closed and the platen pushed into the press by the described means. When the hay is fully compressed, the brake T is turned upon the adjoining wheel of the Windlass, the upper and lower doors are opened, and the tying-wires or bail-ties are passed through the kerfs or grooves in the platen and bed,and thebale completed. When the platen is again drawn rearward, the bale may be dropped out of .the bottom door.

By the described machine, properly con structed, one hundred pounds of hay can be quickly and easily, compressed into a bale eighteen inches square.

' The machine, if desired, may be mounted on suitable supports-such as trestlesinstead of a wagon; but its use in connection with a wagon, as described, is very handy and economical for farmers, all of whom have wagons of about the same description] The wheel 0 has a flat peripheryvertically-grooved platen, notched at itslower corners, the drive'ba'r, the longitudinal bars connecting the platen and the drive-bar, the anti-friction wheels connected to the drive-bar and the platen, the Windlass journaled at the front of the press-frame, the central vertical metal bar secured in the front end of said frame, the double-sheaved block attached to the drive-bar, the single-sheaved blocks at: tached to the vertical metal rod, and the rope connecting the said rod and the Windlass and running over the sheaves of said blocks, substantially as specified.

2. In a baling-press, the combination, with the main frame, the press-frame, the head at the rear end thereof, and the flanged ways in front of the'press-frame, of the platen, the drive-bar connected thereto by longitudinal bars, the anti-friction wheels connected to the platen and the drive-bar, the sheaved blocks, the actuating-rope and the windlass consisting of the transverse shaft, and the wheels 0 and P thereon, each provided with a-series of equidistant outstanding handles, 0, the wheel 0 being smooth on its periphery to receive a belt from a motor, and the wheel P having a grooved periphery in which to attach and wind an actuating-rope, substantially as specified.

y 3. A baling-press comprising the main frame, press-frame, head, platen, and mechanism, substantially as described, whereby the platen is operated, of the metal loop secured to the bottom of the main frame in front of the bale-discharge opening of the press-frame to receive the reach of .a wagon the tongue and reach of which have been separated from the front axle, and the metal arm secured to the bottom of the main frame in rear of said discharge-opening, and provided in its rear end with an opening to receive the king bolt of said wagon and by means of said bolt' attach the machine to the sepa rated front axle of thewagon, substantially as the anti-friction wheels connected to the drivebar and the platen, the Windlass journaled at the front of the press-frame, the doublesheaved block K, attached to the drivebar, the single-sheaved blocks L, and the rope connecting the Windlass and running over the sheaves of said blocks, substantially as speci- 

